About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Republicans "If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for the Democrats." — Dick Gephardt

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-War Republicans, Clinton Era "President Clinton is leading our nation down the path of "mission creep" that will suck our military into a quagmire that resembles Vietnam—a situation that America has vowed never to repeat." — Rep. Terry Everett (R-AL). Congressional Record, H2412, 4-28-99.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother." — Sir Boyle Roche was an eighteenth-century Irish member of Parliament noted for malapropisms and other gaffes, Sir Boyle is Hall of Shame member #5

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1761 - Seven Years' War: After four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.

● 1773 - In nonviolent protest against British taxation, demonstrators dump imported British goods into Boston Harbour. Later becomes known as "Boston Tea Party." American colonists, dressed as American Indians, sneaked aboard a British cargo ship & dumped its load to teas overboard, in protest to the heavy taxes placed by the British on their American exports. A blatant violation of property rights.

● 1811 - At the Mississippi River Valley near New Madrid, Missouri, the greatest series of earthquakes in U.S. history begins when a quake of an estimated 8.6 magnitude on the Richter scale rocks the region. Although the earthquake greatly changed the topography of the region, the area was only sparsely inhabited at the time and there were no known fatalities. The earthquake raised and lowered parts of the Mississippi Valley by as much as 15 feet, changed the course of the Mississippi River, and actually caused the river to momentarily reverse its direction, giving rise to Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee.

● 1835 - Most of New York City consumed by a fire which destroyed 650 buildings. The estimated $22 million loss bankrupted most New York insurance companies, precipitating the Depression of 1837.

● 1838 - Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius combat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

● 1850 - History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign - Battle of Nashville - Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

● 1869 - Decree by U.S. Emperor Norton I demands that Sacramento clean its muddy streets and place gaslights on streets leading to the capitol.

● 1871 - France - Louise Michel, 36-year old popular anarchist and teacher, is brought to trial by the Versailles Government.

● 1872 - Spain - The Congress of Cordoue unanimously adopts the positions of the anarchist l'internationale Anti-autoritaire de Saint Imier, in opposition to the Marxist First International.

● 1893 - Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From The New World" was given its world premiere at Carnegie Hall.

● 1893 - In New York, Voltairine de Cleyre delivers a speech in defense of the young anarchist Emma Goldman, and defends the right of expropriation.

● 1900 - National Civic Federation established to deal with confrontations between labor and management.

● 1901 - Birth of Margaret Mead, radical anthropologist.

● 1907 - The "Great White Fleet," comprising most of U.S. Navy, sent by President Theodore Roosevelt on a world cruise, principally to show Japan, whose laborers he just excluded from the U.S., how powerful the U.S. is.

● 1910 - During a ground test of his Coandă-1910 plane, Henri Coandă, caught unaware by the power of the engine, finds himself briefly airborne and loses control of the machine which crashes to the ground.

● 1918 - Germany - First National Congress of Workers and Soldiers Councils held in Reichstag in Berlin, votes in favor of parliamentary democracy.

● 1920 - One of the deadliest earthquakes in history hits the Gansu province of western China, causing massive landslides and the deaths of over 200,000 people. The earthquake, which measures an 8.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, affects an area of some 25,000 square miles, including ten major cities.

● 1922 - President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

● 1927 - Chinese and Russian communists killed in Canton uprising.

● 1937 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

● 1944 - Nazi forces create a large bulge in the Allied front of Belgium's Ardennes Forest with a surprise counter-attack. Hitler masterminded the attack against his general's advice, in the hope of splitting Allied ground forces near Germany's border.

● 1980 - Harland "Colonel" Sanders dies at 90. {Chickens all over the world rejoice.}

● 1980 - Poland - Leaders of the workers' union, Solidarity, leaders of a new government, representatives of the Catholic Church, and 150,000 gather in Gdansk to recognize the dramatic change which has come to Poland.

● 1985 - Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.

● 1986 - revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which became the first signs of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure

● 1989 - Protest breaks out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor, László Tőkés.

● 1990 - Populist priest Jean Aristide elected President of Haiti despite extensive U.S. assistance to his opposition.

● 1991 - Activists in Brussels, Belgium, protesting Vatican funding for an observatory desecrating sacred Apache site at Mount Graham, Arizona, pull a bulldozer up to a prominent local cathedral.

● 1991 - Canadian Indian Affairs Minister announces "final" agreement with the Inuit of the eastern Arctic, creating the new native-run Territory of Nunavut. When details are worked out three years later, it develops that natives will only control land deemed not to be of commercial or military value to Canadian government.

● 1991 - Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.

● 1991 - United Nations General Assembly: UN General Assembly Resolution 4686 revokes UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 after Israel makes revocation of resolution 3379 a condition of its participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Adelaide of Italy● St. Ado of Vienne● St. Albina● St. Beoc● St. Nicholas Chrysoberges● St. Valentine● Bl. Raynald de Bar

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 3 (Civil Date: December 16)● Nativity Fast.● Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias).● St. Sabbas, abbot of Zvenigorod, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh.● St. Theodulus, eparch of Constantinople.● St. John the Silent of St. Sabbas' Monastery.● Hieromartyr Theodore, Archbishop of Alexandria.● New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Bishop of Ganos.● New Martyr Angelos of Chios.● St. Nicetius, Bishop of Lyons (Gaul).

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